[yocto] Minutes: Yocto Project Technical Team Meeting - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 8:00 AM-9:00 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

[Liu, Song]

Attendees:
Michael, Paul, Joshua, Saul, Darren, Matthew, Richard, Scott, Beth, Jessica, Jason (TI), Tom, Bruce, Mark, Denys, Jeff (WRS), Sean, Dave, Song
 
Focus of the week: top priority is M2 stabilization and bug fixing. Continue with feature development.
 
Action item:
- Paul to work with Jeremy and others to move 1598 forward. (WIP)
 
Agenda:
* Opens collection - 5 min (Song)
* Yocto 1.1.1 point release update - 10 min (Josh/Beth)
  - Late last night the build is out. Have all the fixes. One about HOB is not fixed, will be in the release note. CCB meeting in 2 hours. Joshua's branch will merge after CCB meeting. Doc string change are ready , Scott will need to run through the example after Beth gives the go-ahead. Beth can make that ready today. Scott does not need to re-verify after Josh's branch merges.
 
* Yocto 1.2 M2 status - 10 min (Song/Bruce/Team)
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v1.2_Status 
  - release date change from Feb. 3rd to 10th, everything else stays the same.
  - M2 code freeze already happened. We are in stabilization week. Top priority is to stabilize M2 build and bug fixing.
  - P1 features: HOB2 is in private branch, all M2 development is done. Richard has been reviewing patches. Have some comments, PRC team is working on them. ScottG's bitbake error handling feature will be handled by Richard and Paul. Richard has done some ground work. Will follow up with Scott and Paul on what and who for the next step. Package history (Paul) feature has made progress. Paul had discussions with Richard, we are ok with M2 delivery on this feature. There are some further work for M3 and possibly post 1.2.
  - We had less medium+ bug outstanding this week (91) compared with last week (108). Bug count is in control. Good progress from the team on bug fixing.
 
* Opens - 10 min 
  - Michael, worked at Intel on Yocto, now working for Linux foundation focusing on Yocto Project. background web side, small business, now working on upgrading Bugzilla and some virtualization, happy to work full time on Yocto. Will help with Shoeleather, available via IRC, email.
  - Song SWAT kickoff. Song has sent the email about the SWAT team to the yocto mailing list. SWAT team will be in position starting from this week. Either Darren or Beth will be the first rotating Chair person.
  - Mark: Cross pre-linker update - long standing bug (9 month), finally figured about the reason. Missing a check, sent out a patch to OE core already. Does not seem causing problems, does fix the problem. The fix should integrate by the end of the week.  Now pre-linker works on all arch's except ppc64.
  
  
* Action item Review - 5 min
- Mark will review unsorted features from Wind River team and try to have them scheduled (WIP, Reviewed, some of them should be scheduled by WRS team. Song will follow up to double check. Drop this one from the list)
- Song and Saul to follow on Scott Garman's M2 schedule conflict. (Richard and Paul will help, have a plan now.)
- Paul to work with Jeremy and others to move 1598 forward. (WIP)
-  Paul to split feature 1566 (Song will follow up with Paul on this one, drop from the list)
 
* Team Sharing
 
Jeff - Nothing
Denys - nothing
Mark - Nothing beyond pre-link.
Bruce - continue kernel update, testing qemu, ppc. Booted sato, having some trouble with cursors, should be completed soon.  
Tom - Coming back from vacation. Working on kernel usability tool, internal BSP stuff. Will continue these
Jason - None
Jessica - wrapped up for M2, staring to look at M3 items, need to sync with Tom tools.
Beth - Working on M2.
Scott - last week, 1.1.1 doc change. Beth set up some variables that simplified the doc release process. Scott will follow up with other work. 4-5 bugs addressed. Will continue on 1.1.1.
Richard - catching up with backlogs from holidays, helping out on bitbake error handling. Working on bugs to improve user experience. We managed to keep the bug count in control.
Matthew: not much, working on 1.1.1, will do Freedcale first release. Will help Joshua.
Darren: some travel for internal projects. Functional poky-tiny in master now. Working on 3.2 kernel, a couple of BSPs, some support issues, swat team.
Saul: bug fixing, patch reviewing, build, build fixing, thanks to the SWAT team.
Joshua: looking at 1.1.1 now, fixing bugs and working on features.
Paul: working on layers bugs, discussed with Mark. Resolving issues when flattening layers. Working on build history, data analysis. Will help error handling.
Michael: learning and some ground stuff
Sean: sending out proposal to mailing list: trying to have a monthly conference for developer discussion, architecture. Focusing on getting key releases done. Mentor would like to host it. Expand to OE-core and Yocto. This technical meeting is all Yocto. 2. advisory board, setting up developer day for ELC, we may be sending out something shortly. Feb 14. Mentor will be hosting BSP Summit, BSP in Fremont, CA, finalizing date. 1-2 day event.